Enemy Within : A Short History of Witch-Hunting
by Demos, JohnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-29
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
With the vision of a historian and the voice of a novelist, prize–winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural, and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the remote past and today. The Enemy Within chronicles the most prominent witch-hunts of the Western world—women and men who were targeted by suspicious neighbors and accused of committing horrific crimes by supernatural means—and shows how the fear of witchcraft has fueled recurrent cycles of accusation, persecution, and purging. A unique and fascinating book, it illumines the dark side of communities driven to rid themselves of perceived evil, no matter what the human cost.
Author Biography
John Demos is Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University and the foremost scholar of early American witchcraft. He is the author of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England and The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Prologue | p. i |
| Europe | p. 5 |
| Martyrs of Lyons: A Story from the Beginning | p. 7 |
| Witch-hunting Panorama, 150-1750 | p. 14 |
| The Malleus Maleficarum: A Book and Its Travels | p. 62 |
| Early America | p. 71 |
| Windsor, Connecticut, 1654: A Town Entertaining Satan | p. 73 |
| Witch-hunting in the American Colonies, 1607-92 | p. 80 |
| Mary Parsons: A Life Under Suspicion | p. 131 |
| Salem | p. 141 |
| Rebecca Nurse: A "Witch" and Her Trials | p. 143 |
| The Most Famous Witch-hunt of All, 1692-93 | p. 157 |
| The Reverend Cotton Mather: A Minister and His Demons | p. 216 |
| Modern America | p. 229 |
| Anti-Masonry: A Politics of Panic | p. 231 |
| Saga of Scares, 1700-2000 | p. 241 |
| Fells Acres Day School: A Question of Abuse | p. 282 |
| Epilogue | p. 293 |
| Bibliographic Commentary | p. 297 |
| Index of Names | p. 309 |
| General Index | p. 315 |
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